A keychain made from olive pruning in the form of a simple and genderless building block.
I thought it was just a square shape, but the Arabic letters ("from Palestine") became a point.
When you attach it to a key, it is just the right size and comes in handy.
◆About the material "olive"
Olives have been cultivated in Palestine, where they are produced, since BC, and there are also ancient trees that are thousands of years old. It begins to bear fruit in 5-7 years and is pruned after harvest to help growth after 30~50 years. Production organizations mainly use tree pruners that are more than 50 years old. The branches and trunks are passed on to lumber merchants or directly from farmers to workshops, where they are reborn as crafts and daily necessities. It is used as fuel in winter without throwing away even small wood.
◆About "Frame Chopsticks"
With the motto of "Wonderful borders", Kakike Chopsticks is a Palestinian miscellaneous goods specialty store that develops, selects, and sells products through fair trade. In addition to conveying the charm of the local people and culture that we have actually encountered during our homestays through handicrafts, we also convey the joy of caring for wooden products and incorporating the distortion of natural materials and human hands into our lives.
We always carry about 40 types of daily necessities, kitchen utensils, stationery, etc. that can be picked up by people of all generations and genders (due to the number of stocks and costs, there are some items that are not listed on goooods), and in addition to face-to-face sales, in-house e-commerce, and wholesale handling, we have also opened stores at Hankyu Hanshin Department Store, Meitetsu Department Store, and Matsuya Ginza.
◆About the production organization "Holy Land Handicraft Cooperatives Society" of this product
The oldest member of the World Fair Trade Federation (WFTO) in the Middle East. We support a local community of 2,000 people in Palestine (Bethlehem and West Bank), and we continue to do business with foreign countries and support craftsmen so that no one leaves their jobs even though they have overcome the coronavirus pandemic and are still not receiving any tourism revenue, which is the pillar of the town.